Saginaw could take a few lessons in promotions from Bay City

After viewing the Tall Ships in Bay City and seeing what a great job they do promoting their city and the Saginaw River, it’s really a shame the Friday Night Live stage is in jeopardy. City leaders should be ashamed of themselves, and take a few lessons from our neighbor, Bay City.

The Friday Night Live entertainment is very good, and it’s great to see that many people enjoy it. People of all ethnic backgrounds merge in this one area and have fun, while enjoying the great food and entertainment, with very little problem.

Saginaw Pride people donate their time to promote our city and do a fantastic job, not only with Friday Night Live but with many activities. They bring a lot of people to our area that spend money for food and other things.

This has to be good for our community, as it is when Bay City does this. It’s certainly not a time when our city leaders should decide to take the stage right out from under them.

This stage, I’m sure, was paid for a long time ago. Our city should say it belongs to our community and can be used, free of charge, for things like Friday Night Live. Why would they want to chase people away from our city to other areas to enjoy themselves?

We hear a lot of talk about promoting our city and bringing the people back downtown, and when things like this are done to achieve it, our leaders chase them away! We might as well forget spending any more money on trying to beautify the Saginaw River and our city if they won’t help our great people promote things like this.

The saying is, “If we build it, they will come!” Maybe our leadership needs to take a ride to Bay City and see all the neat things they do there. I haven’t read a thing yet that shows they try to drive people away.